The Socialist Workers Party 2023 International Educational Conference is less than two months away. The conference will take place June 8-11 at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio. The conference will include reports by leaders of the party, classes and discussion…
For the first time in decades, the Militant now has over 200 subscribers in 66 state and federal prisons across 28 states. Since the paper is often shared as part of what some workers behind bars call the “newspaper train,”…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Working people, small farmers and small-business people here, as well as rail workers across the country, continue to discuss steps to advance their interests after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and ensuing toxic chemical…
PAJARO, Calif. — On March 30, dozens of angry victims of flooding here, many of them farmworkers, marched down muddy and debris-covered streets in a protest demanding government aid and equal treatment for undocumented workers. Ramiro Medrano, who helped organize…
After 10 months of bloody fighting for Bakhmut, currently the central battle in Ukraine’s defense of its independence, Moscow’s forces are using scorched-earth tactics to shell more of the city to rubble. They’re inching forward against Ukrainian troops holding high-rise…
WAIANAE, Hawaii — Nearly 500 nurses’ aides, groundskeepers, housekeepers, cooks and other hospital workers have been on strike at Kaiser’s three facilities on the island of Maui since Feb. 22, fighting for higher wages, no forced overtime and safe staff-patient…
“I remember you from last time, when I got a subscription to the Militant,” Pete Bastounes, a member of Operating Engineers Local 150, told Socialist Workers Party members Dan Fein and David Rosenfeld when they knocked on his door in…
While the protests that erupted across Peru after the Dec. 7 ouster of President Pedro Castillo have receded, the issues behind the social unrest and ongoing political crisis remain. Castillo was deposed and jailed on charges of “breaching constitutional order”…
Jorge Sariol, a journalist for Revista ANAP, magazine of the National Association of Small Farmers in Cuba, reported on a Feb. 24 visit by socialist workers from the U.S. and the U.K. to the Cuban-Bulgarian Friendship Agricultural Cooperative in Güines,…
Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Written on the eve of the 21st century, it covers the fast-breaking…
